Our April meeting took place in lovely Spring weather and members were very pleased to see the sunshine.
Eileen's boro stitch club continued in the morning. Some people chose to do simple running stitches on their fabric whilst others used a wider variety of stitches and added button embellishments. The process was both easy and conducive to chatting! But what to do with the finished fabric? Eileen had brought in her sewing machine and demonstrated how to create a book cover. The fabric was bonded to pelmet vilene and then onto a cotton lining fabric. The resulting 'sandwich' was cut to size, flaps created around a book and then the edges were satin stitched to create a neat and firm book cover.
Eileen's boro sample next to completed fabric covered A6 sketchbooks
Eileen at her sewing machine
Fabric book cover
The other stitch club continued foundation piecing small blocks under Helen's guidance. Some people worked on individual blocks whilst others were joining them together to make small hangings. Small scale work requires a lot of concentration and careful hand stitching and everyone involved made good progress.
Helen's star samples
Liz's trees and stars
Diane's star and rose blocks
Til Wright Upcycled Hats
Til Wright is an experienced embroiderer and trained milliner. She brought several boxes of hats with her and gave a lively talk about how she restored charity shop/unloved hats to make them wearable again. She clearly loved wearing hats and had lots of simple ideas that could be applied to any hats lurking in the back of our cupboards. We learned that a good firm brush would improve felt hats, careful steaming could revive mis-shaped fascinators and hats, and that good quality ribbons could accessorize hats of all kinds. We certainly have no excuse not to look fabulous at the next wedding or Ladies' day race meeting that we attend!
Our next meeting will be Saturday 3rd May at Haxby Memorial Hall, 10.30-3.30. Visitors and new members are always welcome.
Planning for the group's exhibition is well under way. Full details can be found by clicking on the 'ARCHITEXTURE exhibition 2025' tab above. Entry is free so why not come along?